Has Jose Saavedra-Belaunde, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $45,194 in general payments to Jose Saavedra-Belaunde, MD across 120 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Jose Saavedra-Belaunde, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Jose Saavedra-Belaunde, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Jose Saavedra-Belaunde, MD

Urology · San Juan, PRNPI 1851604367

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $36,125 of the $45,194 with a category attached, or 79.9%. Boston Scientific accounts for 77.8% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among urology clinicians in PR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$45,194in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $376.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$35K
Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.$5K
Procept Biorobotics Corporation$3K
Medtronic$298
AbbVie$225
Johnson & Johnson$203
plus $973 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$36,12580%
Travel & lodging$2,6716%
Food & beverage$6,39814%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Boston Scientific	72	$35,181
Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$5,120
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	23	$3,193
Medtronic	2	$298
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$225
Johnson & Johnson	2	$203
Coloplast	2	$195
Neotract Inc.	2	$147
Endo USA, Inc.	1	$130
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$128
Urogen Pharma, Inc.	1	$114
Olympus Latin America, Inc.	1	$99
Teleflex LLC	1	$92
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$39
Telix Pharmaceuticals	1	$16
Tolmar, Inc.	1	$15

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$45,194 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 122 urology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$43,932

Medicare patients

126

Services billed

301

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
MyrbetriqMirabegron	57	$28,170
Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate	165	$19,359
Tamsulosin Hcl	215	$3,331
Silodosin	27	$1,734
Levofloxacin	160	$1,704
AmantadineAmantadine Hcl	36	$1,627
Testosterone Cypionate	22	$1,537
Diclofenac Potassium	65	$1,309
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	45	$1,070
Trospium Chloride	16	$924
Bethanechol Chloride	18	$796
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate	14	$768
Cabergoline	12	$668
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip	25	$552
Cephalexin	29	$497

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other urology in San Juan

Andres Perez RomanSan Juan$58K
Rafael Bouet BlasiniSan Juan$55K
Francisco CapoSan Juan$38K
Gil NievesSan Juan$30K
Francois Soto PalouSan Juan$26K
Pablo Ortiz CerezoSan Juan$20K
Jorge Rivera HerreraSan Juan$19K
Eduardo CantoSan Juan$17K
Hector Cardona DobleSan Juan$13K
Antonio Puras BaezSan Juan$9K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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